
Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female
May 30, 1969 (56 years old)
Nara, Japan
Also Known As
- 河瀨直美
- 仙頭直美
- Sentō Naomi
- 가와세 나오미
- 센토 나오미
Naomi Kawase
Biography
Naomi Kawase (河瀨直美 Kawase Naomi, born May 30, 1969) is a Japanese film director. She graduated from Visual Arts Osaka in 1989. Many of her works have been documentaries, including Embracing, about her search for the father who abandoned her as a child, and Katatsumori, about the grandmother who raised her. Aside from being a filmmaker, she is the founder and Executive Director for the Nara International Film Festival.
Known For
Acting
Directing

True Mothers
Director, Screenplay, Director of Photography
2020

Homemade
Director
2020

Vision
Director, Writer, Producer
2018

Radiance
Director, Screenplay
2017

A Midsummer's Fantasia
Producer
2015

Sweet Bean
Director, Screenplay, Associate Producer
2015

Still the Water
Director, Screenplay, Editor, Producer
2014

Hanezu
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Director of Photography, Editor
2012

Nanayo
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Editor
2008

The Mourning Forest
Director, Screenplay, Producer
2007

Shara
Writer, Director
2003

Suzaku
Director, Writer
1997




